How Nintendo has "ruined" gaming

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baph777 said:
"This is totally subjective."

It is objective. There have to be standards and criteria by which to judge products from. You don't take a class in Western literature in a university and study authors like John Saul. There is a reason why authors like Shakespeare, William Blake, Keats, Chaucer, etc. are stressed and that is because they are considered to have set the standard for their medium and it is a standard that the majority of critics have agreed upon over time that is why the works of the authors I list above are considered to be canonical.

In the medium of video games, you also have critics and the majority of their reviews have said that the best games and by a wide numerical margin have appeared on the 360 in this console generation. Not supporting the console that the vast majority of critical appraisals have indicated to be the best in its medium leads to support of lesser products within the industry which in turn leads to a decrease in the quality of future products in that industry.

 

Wrong. 

Objectivity is both an important and very difficult concept to pin down in philosophy. While there is no universally accepted articulation of objectivity, a proposition is generally considered to be objectively true when its truth conditions are "mind-independent"—that is, not the result of any judgments made by a conscious entity. Put another way, objective truths are those which are discovered rather than created. While such formulations capture the basic intuitive idea of objectivity, neither is without controversy.